California's county and city environmental health services delivery system.
Introduction To enhance understanding of environmental health service provision in California, the Loma Linda University School of Public Health conducted an environmental health services delivery assessment of California's county and city health agencies from March 2005 to May 2005. The investigation included a workforce enumeration, an evaluation...

Finkel earns Rall award for work in health advocacy.
Adam M. Finkel, ScD, MPP, CIH, will receive the 2006 David P. Rall Award for Advocacy in Public Health for his career in advancing science in the service of public health protection during APHA's 134th Annual Meeting in Boston in November. The Rall award annually recognizes an...

Reductions in Health Protection and Disease Prevention Programs Undercut Savings in President's Budget, Says APHA.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Bush administration's proposed fiscal year 2008 budget imperils the health of millions of Americans with substantial cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other invaluable disease prevention initiatives and successful health insurance programs, the American Public Health Association (APHA)...

Raising awareness of public health among Americans: new campaigns address the question: what is public health?
In New York City, red and white stickers plastered on everything from bike racks to trash cans to hybrid buses boldly declare: "This is Public Health." In Texas, employees of the San Patricio County Department of Public Health are sporting a logo on their shirts to tell...

FDA: get ready for phasing out of CFC inhalers.
In a public health advisory, the Food and Drug Administration urged health care professionals and their patients and caregivers to switch to hydrofluoroalkane-propelled albuterol inhalers before chlorofluorocarbon-propelled inhalers are taken off the market Jan. 1, 2009. Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)-propelled albuterol inhalers will not be produced or sold in...

Time is short to switch to HFA-propelled albuterol inhalers.
In a public health advisory, the Food and Drug Administration urged health care professionals and their patients and caregivers to switch to hydrofluoroalkane-propelled albuterol inhalers before chlorofluorocarbon-propelled inhalers are taken off the market Jan. 1, 2009. Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)-propelled albuterol inhalers will not be produced or sold in...

Walden University Winter 2007 Commencement Includes First Master of Science Program in Nursing Graduates.
Assistant Surgeon General RADM Carol A. Romano to Give Address MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Walden University, an accredited online institution, will celebrate the graduation of more than 2,400 students, including its first class to receive the M.S. degree in Nursing, on Friday, Jan. 26, at...

Hepatitis C in Puerto Rico: a time for public health action.
Resumen Estudios que han investigado la seroprevalencia de la infeccion con el virus de la hepatitis C (VHC) han estimado una prevalencia global de 3%. Un estudio realizado en una muestra aleatoria de viviendas en el municipio de San Juan revelo que 6.3% de los adultos entre...

Hurdles of health care reform: the obstacles are enormous, and so are the stakes. But there are some new ideas for reining in health care costs and keeping Americans healthy.
Today's health care headlines distress even the most seasoned lawmakers. "Health Costs Soaring" "State's Health Care in Near Crisis" "Uninsured Patients Pack Clinics" "Grim Choices Face States in Making Cuts in Medicaid" "States Not Prepared for Bioterrorism Attack" ...

Effects of the State Children's Health Insurance Program on access to dental care and use of dental services.
Lack of dental insurance is one of the main barriers affecting access to dental services (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2000). In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the U.S. government gradually increased eligibility for public health insurance for low-income children, mainly under the Medicaid program. However,...